I more or less interchangeably refer to myself, in this blog and elsewhere, as having grown up “evangelical” or “fundamentalist.” But I don’t know if I’ve ever paused to try to describe what I mean, let alone make a focused effort at that. Continue reading ““Fundamentalism””
Category: Faith & Ideology
Much ado about nihil
Conventional media and the net are all atwitter the last few days at this App for the iPhone. Continue reading “Much ado about nihil”
S.C.A. vs. E.O.
John 6:60-63, 66 (MSGV)
John 6:60-63 Therefore, many of His disciples, when they heard this, said “This is a hard saying; who can uncerstand it? When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you?” What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? Anyway, I was just jerkin’ around with you with that “eat my body, drink my blood” stuff. It’s all figurative. Y’all know, don’t ya, that Christianity will be all about angels’n’feelin’ good about yourself? … From that time, many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. (More Spiritual than God Version) Continue reading “John 6:60-63, 66 (MSGV)”
Memo to myself
You didn’t figure it out for 48 years
and then it took a few more years to figure out
that figuring it out wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
So have patience, old man
with all the young whippersnappers of the world.
Either they aren’t idiots
or you were an idiot, too.
The Role and Richness of Orthodox Liturgical Texts
I hope that some folks follow my blog partly for occasional comments about Orthodox Christianity, and that some of those are non-Orthodox but interested or open to thinking about it. Continue reading “The Role and Richness of Orthodox Liturgical Texts”
The Ehrman Project
Bart Ehrman, currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, seems to have a way of getting under people’s skin. Continue reading “The Ehrman Project”
Milk, meat, mystery
I’m reminded this morning, by a daily reading from the Orthodox Lexicon, how much I’ve always loved the Epistle to the Hebrews and how much one passage used to puzzle me. Continue reading “Milk, meat, mystery”
Catholicism versus Orthodoxy
A former Calvinist convert to Eastern Orthodox, I nevertheless have for 13 years tried to give Roman Catholicism its due. But having just finished Scott Hahn’s book Rome Sweet Home, where he dismisses Orthodoxy fairly perfunctorily, I rise in brief defense, letting chips fall where they may. Continue reading “Catholicism versus Orthodoxy”
You can’t make this stuff up
I recently stumbled upon a fundamentalist site, so absurd that it has lingered with me, explaining “why the Apocrypha isn’t in the Bible.” It’s absurd as any patent circular “reasoning” is absurd: the Apocrypha isn’t in the Bible, in substantial part, because it teaches false doctrine. And how does one discern false doctrine? By seeing if it’s in the Bible. Continue reading “You can’t make this stuff up”
